The best case scenario is Elon bought twitter to destroy 1/4th of the social media propaganda apparatus and destroy the false majority consensus. See Asch effect and then see what removing all the bots and allowing dissenters would do.
Worst case. Elon bought twitter to make it look more palatable and sink truth social. Before returning it to a censorship machine.
I have no doubt that the timing of doing this just when truth social was coming out was part of why he could secure the loans to actually make the buyout.
As much as I would love to be wrong, I don't think Truth Social, Gab or any other upstart would ever have been in a position to compete with Twitter.
I'm also skeptical as to the sincerity of Elon's commitment to free speech, but he has the right idea buying Twitter. Ultimately, the only way to break the left-wing stranglehold on social media is to take control of the normie platforms away from them. Any explicitly right-wing platforms set up as alternatives will always just be right-wing echo chambers, and have minimal overlap with mainstream or non-political discourse.
The best case scenario is Elon bought twitter to destroy 1/4th of the social media propaganda apparatus and destroy the false majority consensus. See Asch effect and then see what removing all the bots and allowing dissenters would do.
Worst case. Elon bought twitter to make it look more palatable and sink truth social. Before returning it to a censorship machine.
I have no doubt that the timing of doing this just when truth social was coming out was part of why he could secure the loans to actually make the buyout.
As much as I would love to be wrong, I don't think Truth Social, Gab or any other upstart would ever have been in a position to compete with Twitter.
I'm also skeptical as to the sincerity of Elon's commitment to free speech, but he has the right idea buying Twitter. Ultimately, the only way to break the left-wing stranglehold on social media is to take control of the normie platforms away from them. Any explicitly right-wing platforms set up as alternatives will always just be right-wing echo chambers, and have minimal overlap with mainstream or non-political discourse.